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The present work is an endeavour to determine analytically features of the stationary measure of a non-integrable zero-range process, and to investigate the possible existence of phase transitions for such a nonequilibrium model. The rates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-20 C Godreche

Phase separation is the thermodynamic process that explains how droplets form in multicomponent fluids. These droplets can provide controlled compartments to localize chemical reactions, and reactions can also affect the droplets' dynamics.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-02 David Zwicker

Phase separation is a fairly common physical phenomenon with examples including the formation of water droplets from humid air (fog, rain), the separation of a crystalline structure from an isotropic material such as a liquid or even the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ágoston Pisztora

This short review covers a wide selection of topics from a multidisciplinary area of dynamics of nonequilibrium systems in physics, chemistry, biology. Theoretical models of colloid particle and protein deposition and adhesion at surfaces,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Privman

The nonequilibrium phase transition in a system of diffusing, coagulating particles in the presence of a steady input and evaporation of particles is studied. The system undergoes a transition from a phase in which the average number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Rajesh

In active matter, the lack of momentum conservation makes non-reciprocal interactions the rule rather than the exception. They lead to a rich set of emerging behaviors that are hard to account for and to predict starting from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-06 Alberto Dinelli , Jérémy O'Byrne , Agnese Curatolo , Yongfeng Zhao , Peter Sollich , Julien Tailleur

The formation of polarized signaling domains on cell membranes is a fundamental example of biological pattern formation. While such patterns resemble structures from equilibrium phase separation, they are intrinsically non-equilibrium,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Damiano Andreghetti , Alfredo Braunstein , Luca Dall'Asta , Andrea Gamba

Phase separation in complex systems is a ubiquitous phenomenon. While simple theories predict coarsening until only macroscopically large phases remain, concrete models often exhibit patterns with finite length scales. To unify such models,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-10 Filipe C. Thewes , Yicheng Qiang , Oliver W. Paulin , David Zwicker

We investigate the nonequilibrium stationary states of systems consisting of chemical reactions among molecules of several chemical species. To this end we introduce and develop a stochastic formulation of nonequilibrium thermodynamics of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-04 Tânia Tomé , Mário J. de Oliveira

Equilibrium is a rather ideal situation, the exception rather than the rule in Nature. Whenever the external or internal parameters of a physical system are varied its subsequent relaxation to equilibrium may be either impossible or take…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-04 Leticia F. Cugliandolo

Small thermodynamic systems exhibit peculiar behavior different from that observed in long-scale systems. Non-equilibrium processes taking place in those systems are strongly influenced by the presence of fluctuations which can be large.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Rubi

Nonequilibrium phase transition plays a pivotal role in a broad physical context from condensed matter to cosmology. Tracking the formation of non-equilibrium phases in condensed matter is challenging and requires a resolution of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Faran Zhou , Joseph Williams , Christos D. Malliakas , Mercouri G. Kanatzidis , Alexander F. Kemper , Chong-Yu Ruan

A possible approach to description of the non equilibrium system has been proposed. Based on the Fokker-Plank equation in term of energy for non equilibrium distribution function of macroscopical system was obtained the stationary solution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-08 Bohdan Lev

Unlike fluids at thermal equilibrium, biomolecular mixtures in living systems can sustain nonequilibrium steady states, in which active processes modify the conformational states of the constituent molecules. Despite qualitative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-31 Yongick Cho , William M. Jacobs

Systems with long range interactions in general are not additive, which can lead to an inequivalence of the microcanonical and canonical ensembles. The microcanonical ensemble may show richer behavior than the canonical one, including…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Freddy Bouchet , Julien Barre

Biomolecular condensates are small droplets forming spontaneously in biological cells via phase separation. They play a role in many cellular processes, but it is unclear how cells control them. Cellular regulation often relies on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-15 Jan Kirschbaum , David Zwicker

Under many circumstances many soft and hard materials are present in a puzzling wealth of non-equilibrium amorphous states, whose properties are not stationary and depend on preparation. They are often summarized in unconventional "phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-20 Jesús Benigno Zepeda-López , Magdaleno Medina-Noyola

The requisites for the persistence of small colonies of self-replicating molecules living in a two-dimensional lattice are investigated analytically in the infinite diffusion or mean-field limit and through Monte Carlo simulations in the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Claudia P. Ferreira , J. F. Fontanari

Mixtures of several macromolecular species can lead to the formation of higher-order structures that often display non-ideal mixing behavior. In this work, we propose a minimal model of a quaternary system which considers the formation of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-14 Ruoyao Zhang , Sheng Mao , Mikko Haataja

A hallmark of living systems is the ability to employ a common set of versatile building blocks that can self-organize into a multitude of different structures, in a way that can be controlled with minimal cost. This capability can only be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-26 Saeed Osat , Ramin Golestanian